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MARCH 13, 2013

Santa Barbara-based HG Data Company announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, for its cloud-based, business intelligence database service. HG Data is led by Craig Harris, and develops technology to gather business intelligence data from both the Web as well as offline source.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the online comparison site headed by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor , has turned to a Google and DoubleClick vet to serve as President. Yaghoubi was also an executive serving under O'Connor at DoubleClick, where he was Vice President of Global Media. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , the e-commerce and payment processing software firm headed by Dan Engel, said this week that it has launched a new online subscription management and payment service called SaaSy. Engel said that the service is aimed at SaaS and Web 2.0 Engel said that the service is aimed at SaaS and Web 2.0

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APRIL 19, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , a developer of pay-per-call technology headed by Jason Spievak, is powering a new performance marketing firm called OfferMobi. affiliate network focused exclusively on the mobile web, based on RingRevenue's call tracking technology. The company said that it will operate a U.S.

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of private cloud management software, said this morning that it has raised $20M in new funding. Eucalyptus said the funding will go to scale development, marketing, and sales of its commercial open source private cloud management software. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Commission Junction , the affiliate marketing arm of ValueClick, said Wednesday that online discount retailer Overstock.com has signed on as a customer of the firm. Commission Junction will manage Overstock.com's affiliate marketing programs, which are used to encourage sales on e-commerce web sites.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online , which operates the GoToMyPC remote desktop software and GoToMeeting web conferencing service, said today that it has linked in a partnership with FranklinCovey. FranklinCovey is a publisher of scheduling, planning, and organization tools. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing. Again, an interesting topic to discuss.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Santa Barbara-based RightScale said today that it has raised $13M, in a second round for the cloud computing software firm. RightScale is developing a cloud computing software platform based on Amazon's web services; the frim's product allows users to manage and deploy servers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Three full time developers and no marketing spend. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. Marketing , Costello and Sons Insurance , Deloitte , The City of. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. to San Diego. learn more.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. The other major evolution of Steve’s thinking is in the area of web and mobile businesses, the latter of which were nascent at the time Four Steps was written. Article first published as Steve Blank Discusses Origin And Future Of Lean Startup Movement on Technorati.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. They also align with companies such as Amazon web services, IBM, and many others. THE SANDBOX & StartupSB (Santa Barbara, CA). iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. It's a known market with urgency, so we started there. New clients will instead go with a provider with cloud capability, like Rackspace.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. There is a marketing funnel, and the closer you can get to an actual purchase, the more valuable your real estate is. How'd you decide to start FindTheBest?

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. What are the barriers to entry here--it seems like there have been a number of web startups who are doing some aspects of this--if not conference calls, at least transcribing voicemails?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. Look around. You may have overlooked an otherwise highly qualified Advisor, who can help you avoid rookie startup mistakes.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. Explain your technology? call centers every year.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market. I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. Greathouse : Yes, it always seems to get harder to launch a startup when a market begins maturing. Kutay: "At first it was exclusively word of mouth in local markets. At that time in travel it was very relevant.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck. Add Up Lots Of Little Advantages.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

We go to the web, we go to feature phones, we go to smart phones, we go to land lines, iPads, Droids, and so on. Whether those meetings are with brands, with celebrities, or entertainment managers, by being in one of those three markets you have a presence that is hard to get in many other cities.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. billion). . <Note:

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. megawatts of energy. Our customer is not the building owner or tenant, it's the utility. Can you talk about that?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. What's the market opportunity here? Zareh Baghdasarian: The market opportunity and timing is perfect. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara. They want to lock in future clients at an early stage.

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